Not sure where this should be posted but here goes:
What was your worst ever day on the job ? I don't mean it as you getting a flat battery or coming to work in a grey t-shirt ......... but the day that made you stop and take a deep breath ?
For me I have 2. (1) I was to work my first CPP assignment with this client and at the last minute his regular man asked to do one last job with him. I shook hands and agreed to fly home get rekitted and head off 2 days later. As I flew home I felt uneasy, unable to sleep the short flight home at midnight. With 20 minutes before landing, the Captain approached me for a quiet word and informed me that there had been an accident and my CPP colleague had been killed so the state and federal police would speak with me when we landed. Clients exwife had hired someone to scare him but lost control of the car and hit the CPPO who was working alone. It could have been me who was killed if there was not a last day change.
(2) I am sorry to say it but 11th September 2001 changed my world. I was asleep (it was midnight here) when my phone rang from the USA and I watched in awe at the events unfolding. I did not see any live footage but scrambled to get myself dressed and straight to work (USA based company) as staff were recalled back to work immediately. I had been in the WTC bar in the Southern Tower (?) only a few months before during a 1 day stopover coming back to Sydney. I admit I became a robot and with the Psychiatrists called in by work for a debrief don't really recall much of what went on as it was just 2nd nature to me to do what had to be done.
What was your worst ever day on the job ? I don't mean it as you getting a flat battery or coming to work in a grey t-shirt ......... but the day that made you stop and take a deep breath ?
For me I have 2. (1) I was to work my first CPP assignment with this client and at the last minute his regular man asked to do one last job with him. I shook hands and agreed to fly home get rekitted and head off 2 days later. As I flew home I felt uneasy, unable to sleep the short flight home at midnight. With 20 minutes before landing, the Captain approached me for a quiet word and informed me that there had been an accident and my CPP colleague had been killed so the state and federal police would speak with me when we landed. Clients exwife had hired someone to scare him but lost control of the car and hit the CPPO who was working alone. It could have been me who was killed if there was not a last day change.
(2) I am sorry to say it but 11th September 2001 changed my world. I was asleep (it was midnight here) when my phone rang from the USA and I watched in awe at the events unfolding. I did not see any live footage but scrambled to get myself dressed and straight to work (USA based company) as staff were recalled back to work immediately. I had been in the WTC bar in the Southern Tower (?) only a few months before during a 1 day stopover coming back to Sydney. I admit I became a robot and with the Psychiatrists called in by work for a debrief don't really recall much of what went on as it was just 2nd nature to me to do what had to be done.
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